Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: Pulse-Drain
In twelve years of designing lithium battery packs for cordless tools, I have watched more “failed” batteries get replaced for reasons that had nothing to…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Pulse Load
Over the past decade I have personally signed off on lithium battery testing programs for more than forty cordless power tool platforms — drills, impact d…
Lithium Battery Design for Mobility Devices: Cell Choice,
I have spent more than a decade designing lithium battery packs for powered wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and last-mile delivery carts, and if there is o…
Lithium Battery Reliability for Solar Kits: Field Failure
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. In the last nine years I have signed off roughly 320 lithium battery packs that ended up…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for UPS Systems: An
I have been specifying lithium battery cost optimization ups systems since 2018, and the conversation I have with buyers has shifted twice. In the first wa…
Lithium Battery Reliability for Solar Kits: An Engineer’s
I have spent more than a decade specifying and testing lithium battery packs for off-grid and portable power products, and if there is one lesson the field…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for Mobility Devices
I have spent more than a decade working with lithium-ion packs that go into electric wheelchairs, mobility scooters, foldable power chairs, patient lift sy…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: An Engineer’s
Two packs sit on my bench this morning with the same label: 18 V, 5.0 Ah, 90 Wh. One rips thirty cuts through 2x lumber on a 6-1/2″ circular saw before the…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for Mobility Devices (Guide)
Why Mobility Duty Is the Hardest Job a Lithium Battery Will Ever Have
I have spent eleven years designing and servicing lithium battery packs, and I will s…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for UPS Systems
If you run a server room, a telecom shelter, or any 24/7 standby load, you already know that a UPS is only as good as the lithium battery pack that lives i…